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Lifehacker

2018-03-19T11:34:00.000000000+00:00
You don’t necessarily need to buy a new mattress to get a better night’s sleep: Sometimes, a mattress pad will do, and a great one is on sale in today’s Amazon Gold Box.Read more...

2018-03-18T20:45:00.000000000+00:00
This weekend The New York Times reported that 50 million Facebook users had their profile information harvested by the Trump-connected data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica via a personality app on the site.Read more...

2018-03-18T19:00:00.000000000+00:00
It’s March Madness time, which means a lot of us are crowding into bars to watch games, crowded bars where even though you might be able to see the game your chances of hearing it are pretty slim.Read more...

2018-03-18T14:15:00.000000000+00:00
The bestselling, top-rated, and audience-favorite robotic vacuum got upgraded to a new and improved model late last year, and you can suck up yours today for just $180, a whopping $70 less than usual, and an all-time low.Read more...

2018-03-18T12:30:00.000000000+00:00
At least half the hotel rooms I end up staying in these days require that you stick your room key in a slot beside the door in order to do things like turn on the lights or use the power outlets. It’s a detail that I forget at least once a trip and end up spending a few minutes fumbling around tr...

2018-03-17T19:12:00.000000000+00:00
During a trip to Dublin a few years ago I befriended a group of older Irish women at a bar one afternoon, as one does. At some point during the conversation, it came out that I had never had a true Irish coffee. Seconds later they made sure I had one in my hand and I was hooked.Read more...

2018-03-17T13:22:00.000000000+00:00
You can never have enough Qi charging pads, but my favorite place to charge wirelessly might just be the car. iOttie now has three different Qi-capable smartphone mounts, and all of them are 15% off today with promo code S9SAVE15.Read more...

2018-03-17T13:15:00.000000000+00:00
Earlier this month Google made Google Lens available for non-Pixel Android devices, and this week it’s finally started rolling the feature out to iOS devices like your iPhone and iPad as well.Read more...

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Cool Material

2018-03-18T15:30:56.000000000+00:00
We’ve seen some pretty cool homes fashioned from shipping containers, but the Honomobar is the first purchasable bar we’ve come across made from one—and we want it badly. Honomobo, a design group that has built…

2018-03-18T15:25:09.000000000+00:00
It’s been a rough couple of nights. Get a greasy sandwich and give your brain a rest. It’s time to kick back with some of our favorite videos and visuals from the past week.

2018-03-16T18:00:16.000000000+00:00
Normally when we stumble upon an attractive retreat like this, it’s tucked away in the Pacific Northwest or removed from a good portion of society. What if you want a couple nights in the woods in…

2018-03-16T17:00:08.000000000+00:00
A couple of months ago, we had the idea to fill our Keurig with Guinness Extra so it could spit out coffee stout. It was, perhaps, our worst idea of all time. (You can read about…

2018-03-16T16:30:24.000000000+00:00
Latte art is the stuff Instagram dreams are made of. Why shouldn’t beer be allowed in on the fun? That’s the idea behind Beer Ripples, a new printer-like device that will craft a message in…

2018-03-16T15:30:04.000000000+00:00
Smartwatches were a glimpse into the future. But who said companies, or consumers, were satisfied stopping there? Clearly, based on recent releases, no one. Companies are being founded with the sole mission of making wearable…

2018-03-16T15:00:50.000000000+00:00
Inspiration can find you when you least expected it. That’s what we imagine happened here. Gianluca Paludi was probably at a club when the designer saw what to model a new set of sinks after.…

2018-03-16T14:32:42.000000000+00:00
With cable, Netflix, and internet options, finding the best thing to watch during your downtime is difficult. Instead of flipping through menus all weekend and settling on nothing, turn to What to Watch This Weekend,…

2018-03-16T13:40:11.000000000+00:00
Dropping almost $1.5 million on a house with 3 beds, 2 baths and less than 2,000 square feet (1,702 to be exact) that’s described by the realtor as an “amazing development opportunity” might seem ridiculous—until…

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Matador

2018-03-19T12:00:30.000000000+00:00
To celebrate the tricentennial of The Big Easy, here’s one big embrace of what makes the city a must on every travel bucket list.
The post 300 reasons we love New Orleans appeared first on Matador Network.

2018-03-17T00:00:58.000000000+00:00
This is why we can’t have nice things.
The post This Belgian bar is demanding your shoe as ransom so you don’t steal their beer glasses appeared first on Matador Network.

2018-03-17T00:00:15.000000000+00:00
The biggest winter hater will win tickets to somewhere warm.
The post JetBlue will give you free tickets to escape the winter cold, if you can convince someone to switch cities. appeared first on Matador Network.

2018-03-16T23:00:08.000000000+00:00
Never feel lonely, knowing that Steve, the new purple aurora, is with you.
The post There’s a new epicly beautiful aurora, and its name is Steve appeared first on Matador Network.

2018-03-16T21:00:59.000000000+00:00
This company is 3D-printing houses to fight homelessness
The post This startup plans to 3D print affordable tiny houses to combat homelessness around the world appeared first on Matador Network.

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Becoming Minimalist

2018-03-19T06:04:13.000000000+00:00
I majored both in Banking and Finance from the University of Nebraska. (I don’t talk much about it as my career took a different route shortly after graduation.) And yet, despite having a college degree in money, I lived most of my life with financial discontent, always surviving paycheck-to-payc...

2018-03-12T08:27:06.000000000+00:00
In my mind growing up, the idea of fasting was always tied to food. My Catholic friends would fast during Lent—the 40 days leading up to Easter—by not eating meat on Fridays. While my family never observed Lent in the traditional sense, I was still encouraged to consider fasting from food as a sp...

2018-03-10T05:15:24.000000000+00:00
There’s more to life than buying stuff. There are many wonderful people pursuing and promoting simplicity. Fortunately, some of them are gifted in communication and choose to encourage and inspire us with their words. I enjoy reading their unique perspective. I’m sure you will too. So fix yoursel...

2018-03-08T07:10:51.000000000+00:00
There are a lot of important questions we ask in life: Who? What? When? Where? How? But the most important of these is the one we ask the least often: Why? Granted, why? is the hardest question to answer. But just because it can be difficult to answer doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be asked. Why? […]

2018-03-02T13:25:53.000000000+00:00
People have set out to more remote places of the world, built homes of their own, and lived off the land. They’ve followed the sun—up at dawn, sleep at dark. Our ancestors lived simply, by default. Nowadays, however, it’s more difficult to live this way in a time of great technological advancemen...

2018-02-26T13:26:45.000000000+00:00
Ten years ago, our lives changed dramatically. The realization that our possessions were actually distracting us from a life of joy and purpose and fulfillment became the motivation to pursue minimalism in our home. As our family of four began removing nonessential possessions, we soon discovered...

2018-02-23T19:20:50.000000000+00:00
Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of everything that distracts us from it. It requires a conscious decision because it is a countercultural lifestyle that stands against the culture of overconsumption that surrounds us. The world we live in is not...

2018-02-12T09:34:46.000000000+00:00
Technology changes fast. And new advancements are announced with great fanfare. The promise of changing how we interact with the world is just as standard on new technological devices as a power-on button. This promise sounds good to us. And so we buy and buy these devices in incredible numbers. ...

2018-02-10T06:56:29.000000000+00:00
Never underestimate the importance of removing stuff you don’t need. Encouragement provides us with motivation to persevere. It invites us to dream dreams of significance for our lives. And it begs us to work diligently with optimism and promise. Overcoming the pull of consumerism is a difficult ...

2018-02-05T06:26:41.000000000+00:00
I’ve often asked myself why we buy more than we need. I mean, when you really think about it, what would cause us to buy unnecessary things in the first place? I think there are a number of reasons this is the case—some internally motived and some externally motivated. But one reason we should ne...

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The Happiness Project

2018-03-15T17:52:53.000000000+00:00
Interview: Anna Palmer. Anna Palmer is the senior Washington correspondent for POLITICO and the co-author of POLITICO's Playbook She’s also the co-host of the daily POLITICO morning podcast Playbook Audio Briefing (which she records at 4 a.m. every morning!) as well as host of the Women Rule podc...

2018-03-13T17:34:49.000000000+00:00
In my book The Happiness Project, I describe how and why I bought my sister Elizabeth a treadmill desk, to use in her office where she works as a writer and producer in Hollywood. Along with getting my husband a subscription to Sports Illustrated, this is the most successful gift I’ve ever given....

2018-03-08T10:00:11.000000000+00:00
Interview: Geneen Roth. Geneen Roth is a bestselling writer of many books who, in her work, examines the relationships among identity, food, spirituality, body image, money, and other aspects of our everyday lives. That is, some of the most some complex and charged issues within the larger subjec...

2018-03-01T19:32:23.000000000+00:00
In episodes 149 and 152 of the Happier with Gretchen Rubin podcast, my sister Elizabeth and I talked about how we created a list of our "18 for 2018" – eighteen things we wanted to get done in 2018. Well, we’re a few months into 2018 now, and I thought I’d review my progress so far. […]

2018-02-24T11:55:19.000000000+00:00
In her memoir Life with Picasso, Francoise Gilot quoted Matisse: As Matisse said, "When I look at a fig tree, every leaf has a different design. They all have their own manner of moving in space; yet in their own separate ways, they all cry, 'Fig tree.'" It's one of my Secrets of Adulthood: I'm […]

2018-02-23T13:00:49.000000000+00:00
I love my hometown of Kansas City, Missouri, and talk about it often – and people ask, "What are some fun things to do in Kansas City?" I like that question, because it reminds me that I can be a tourist without leaving home. A tourist reads and studies, a tourist shows up, a tourist […]

2018-02-22T13:00:53.000000000+00:00
One of my favorite things about myself is that I often become obsessed with certain subjects. I’ll do countless hours of research to learn more about these subjects, sometimes over the course of years. For instance, some of my obsessions have included: color, clutter, the placebo response, the se...

2018-02-20T10:30:03.000000000+00:00
Interview: John Leland. John Leland is a longtime journalist who has been at The New York Times since 2000. He's covered a wide range of topics, among them, retirement and religion. He also writes books, and he has a new book that is just hitting the shelves: Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lesso...

2018-02-17T11:00:00.000000000+00:00
In 1886, Russian playwright and short-story writer Anton Chekhov wrote a letter of advice to his beloved older brother Nikolai, a talented painter and writer who suffered from severe alcoholism. Chekhov writes: To my mind, civilized people ought to satisfy the following conditions: 1. They respec...

2018-02-15T10:30:47.000000000+00:00
Interview: Melissa Dahl. Melissa is a senior editor at New York Magazine, and I got to know her work because I've been a long-time fan of Science of Us, a site that has now joined The Cut. The sites cover mental health, human behavior, personality, relationships, work, health, wellness -- all sub...

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Travel

2018-03-15T20:15:43.000000000+00:00
Sign up for R&amp;K Insider, our collection of the most compelling happenings in food, politics, and travel from across the web.
The post Eating Like You’re Home—Away From Home appeared first on Roads &amp; Kingdoms.

2018-03-15T19:47:44.000000000+00:00
Probably the only major challenge visitors will face is learning how to pronounce Wi-Fi in French.
The post Getting Online in Bordeaux appeared first on Roads &amp; Kingdoms.

2018-03-15T19:45:37.000000000+00:00
From oysters to spices to Sichuan carpaccio, Bordeaux's food reflects the perks of being a city on the crossroads of global trading routes.
The post A History of Bordeaux in 10 Dishes appeared first on Roads &amp; Kingdoms.

2018-03-15T19:45:07.000000000+00:00
Bordeaux has close to 7,000 winemakers and 65 appellations. Getting to know it defies easy answers, but these five wines can get you started.
The post Bordeaux Primer: Five Wines to Drink appeared first on Roads &amp; Kingdoms.

2018-03-15T19:37:59.000000000+00:00
Manufacturing may have moved elsewhere but these soundtracks have kept Motor City the epicenter of music.
The post A Detroit Soundtrack appeared first on Roads &amp; Kingdoms.

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Lonely Planet

2018-03-16T16:57:11.000000000+00:00
From awe-inspiring ancient spires to innovative, contemporary designs, the world’s varied locales are so often characterised by their architecture. So much of the joy of travelling involves looking up, down and all around at the man-made marvels that form concrete jungles, iconic skylines and wor...

2018-03-11T10:30:19.000000000+00:00
Do you know which country grows the most mangoes? Or the name of the football team who play their home games at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium? Test your knowledge of travel trivia with April’s edition of our monthly quiz. Can you score 100%? TAKE THE QUIZ Desperate for more travel trivia? Have a go a...

2018-03-09T12:09:46.000000000+00:00
Spectacularly shedding its reputation as something of a sleepy month, this February bombarded us with tales of adventure from the globetrotting Pathfinders community. Thanks to them, we’ve vicariously walked ancient trails in Japan, relived epic battles in Scotland and even searched for erotic ar...

2018-03-08T17:03:50.000000000+00:00
Every month, we curate the best videos, blog posts and Instagrams from our Lonely Planet Pathfinders. This month’s feature is from Hanna and Zach of HandZaround, who take us on an exciting hike through the varying landscape of the Ngare Ndare Forest in Kenya. ‘We visited Ngare Ndare Forest, 4 hou...

2018-03-06T12:58:17.000000000+00:00
There is barely a rolling vista or bustling cityscape that our Pathfinders didn’t manage to picture in February, snapping everything from cobbled city backstreets to mountain monasteries. Beautifully framed and expertly shot, here are the Instagrams that gave us severe wanderlust last month. Riga...

2018-02-20T11:42:02.000000000+00:00
Megan Eaves, Destination Editor for North Asia, recently returned from a trip to Uzbekistan. Tell us more… I spent seven days travelling around Uzbekistan, one of the biggest travel drawcards in Central Asia. I had been to the region before, but never to Uzbekistan, so the aim of the trip was to ...

2018-02-19T14:46:50.000000000+00:00
What’s noteworthy about the Arctic Circle’s latest hotel? Which US city has been named the most romantic in the country? Test your knowledge of the latest happenings in the travelsphere with our travel news quiz, featuring some of this month’s most intriguing news stories. TAKE THE QUIZ Get a reg...

2018-02-14T14:46:33.000000000+00:00
Every month, we curate the best blog posts and Instagrams from our Lonely Planet Pathfinders. This month’s feature is from videographer Zach Murray who takes us on a journey through Scotland’s mesmerising landscapes. ‘Last spring my wife and I went on an incredible road trip in Scotland. We trave...

2018-02-14T14:33:11.000000000+00:00
New year, new travel experiences! Our intrepid Pathfinders have kicked off 2018 with a host of incredible snapshots, framing everything from the world’s busiest beaches to its most serene landscapes with their well-honed photography skills. Here are the five Instagram posts that stole the show th...

2018-02-13T10:24:43.000000000+00:00
The beginning of a new year is a time for both reflection and preparation, and this month’s blog post submissions from our Pathfinders left us with a lot to think about. We’ve been wowed by offbeat wildlife encounters in Mexico, humbled by the sight of mighty eagle-assisted hunters in Kyrgyzstan ...

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zenhabits

2018-03-16T01:24:19.000000000+00:00
By Leo Babauta It’s something most of us deal with every day, often without realizing it’s there: a feeling of time scarcity. We know it well: the feeling of having too much to do and not enough time to do it all. This is true not only of work — where we have too many […]

2018-03-12T20:35:43.000000000+00:00
By Leo Babauta I’ve often been described as a “calm” person. I’m not sure if they really mean “boring,” but I’m happy to be calm most of the time. When others are stressing out, I can help calm them down. When things aren’t going well, I calmly take appropriate action instead of falling apart. Wh...

2018-03-08T23:55:17.000000000+00:00
By Leo Babauta A friend of mine was telling me about two of the most successful times of his often very scattered life … and they both came when he was very focused on one learning project. Having a single focus really allowed him to grow — not only to deeply learn the topic he […]

2018-03-05T17:42:37.000000000+00:00
By Leo Babauta There’s a sense of incompleteness in our lives. We have felt it since adolescence, at least, if not since early childhood — it’s a feeling that something is wrong with us, that something is missing, or that we’re missing out on something in the world. It’s a feeling of disconnectio...

2018-03-02T20:05:07.000000000+00:00
By Leo Babauta We’ve just started the third month of the year, and with the realization that this year is slipping past us so quickly … I’m issuing a challenge to all of you. My March Challenge is to pick one small change that will have a big impact on your life. One small change […]

2018-02-26T17:06:30.000000000+00:00
By Leo Babauta It’s said that one of the great patriarchs of the Zen tradition, Hui Neng, was enlightened upon hearing a single verse of the Diamond Sutra (one of the key teachings in Buddhism). That verse can be translate in various ways, but the key line in it goes something like, “Develop a mi...

2018-02-22T22:12:30.000000000+00:00
By Leo Babauta I’ve been diving deeper into training the mind when it meets difficulty, stress, the urge to procrastinate, anger, pain, uncertainty, discomfort. And here’s the secret I’ve learned: what most people take to be bad news is actually the good news. Let’s take the example of Greg … he ...

2018-02-19T16:41:39.000000000+00:00
By Leo Babauta It’s a common thing to be frequently annoyed by other people — added to our regular interactions with family, friends and coworkers are the online habits of people on various social media, and they can all irritate the hell out of us. What can we do when other people are being anno...

2018-02-15T18:48:00.000000000+00:00
By Leo Babauta When I was young, I would run barefoot through the jungles of Guam, being chased by bad guys, imagining I was on an Indiana Jones-style adventure. The world was filled with possibility, excitement, discovery, exploration, and a delicious sense of danger and the unknown lurking in t...

2018-02-12T17:23:19.000000000+00:00
By Leo Babauta Imagine a woman who has a powerful gift to give to the world, a song to sing that will lift others up … but she only lets herself give that gift when the sun is shining and she’s happy and the moon is in perfect alignment with Jupiter. The world would be […]